Beyond the Balkans

Last week's "Balkan Express" was the 278th installment I wrote for Antiwar.com over the past seven years. I'm proud of them all, and don't regret anything I've written. But as I said myself, on several occasions, this is not 1999 any more. Not that anything has...

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National Review Just Keeps Giving

In the final installment of today's National Review trilogy, I present Thomas Sowell in Paul Harvey mode: When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can’t help wondering if the day may yet come when...

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The Blessings of Destruction

Another classic from Bruce Bartlett, from April 2003: "War in Iraq Is a Bargain: A new study says the conflict is an economic blessing — for us and them." For those unclear on the title reference, click here.

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In Their Hearts, They Know She’s Right

I understand a lack of enthusiasm for the top-tier GOP presidential candidates – really, I do – but isn't it a little early yet for the neocons* to endorse Hillary? Not that they're logically wrong to do so… *UPDATE: A reader writes in to say that Bruce...

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Prisoner of Zion

Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli scientist who exposed the secret of Israel's nukes, was recently convicted, according to this Reuters report, of "giving a slew of interviews to international media outlets over the past three years, defying a government order on him to...

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Getting Real About NATO

Nikolas K. Gvosdek, editor of The National Interest and a senior fellow at the Nixon Center, points out in the Washington Realist that Georgia, Ukraine, Albania, Croatia and Macedonia are the recent recipients of billions in largesse from the U.S. Congress, with the...

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